Title: Electronic content in education
1Electronic content in education
- Media culture with(out) media?
- Marina Cizmic Horvat
- Predrag Gjuro Kladaric
2Content
mobile phones off, please
- e-learning on the Faculty
- Media culture course
- lectures, seminars, online
- student activities
- online activities logs
- expected future
3We are
- Marina Cizmic Horvat
- Department of Information Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
- mfruk_at_ffzg.hr
4We are
- Predrag Gjuro Kladaric
- IT Services, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences - Ivana Lucica 3, Zagreb, Croatia
- gjuro_at_ffzg.hr
5e-learning on the Faculty
- In the academic year 2005/2006 we started a new
elective course named Media Culture for the
first year students of Information Sciences and
for the other interested students.
6e-learning on the Faculty
- Electronic contents in the study of Information
Sciences at the faculty have successfully been
used for a long time as an essential part of the
teaching process.
7e-learning on the Faculty
- E-learning systems started in 2002. A system
named Moodle was chosen because of its features
and has been in use since 2005 with great
success. - Particular implementation of Moodle on the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in
Zagreb operates under name Omega because name
Moodle badly functions in Croatian.
8Media Culture course
- Media Culture as the course was organized in
total of fifteen meetings in the semester - we
met once a week, one period of lecture and one of
seminar.
9Media Culture course
- We prefer learning in an active way, because it
is more effective than a passive receiving of
information.
10lectures, seminars, online
- This kind of learning and practicing competence
requires a new form of didactic, which is not a
scholastic one, meaning a passive acquiring of
the necessary information.
11lectures, seminars, online
- We want the student to be active, to choose the
theme and the way of the presentation of his
personal experience with the media.
12lectures, seminars, online
- The traditional classroom teaching is now
replaced by the new way of learning, which means
developing competences and collecting information
and knowledge concerning current problems.
13lectures, seminars, online
- This kind of learning is more an actualization of
knowledge from different data bases, than
learning for future, or collecting knowledge for
possible cognitive challenges.
14lectures, seminars, online
- This kind of teaching demands new specific
conditions limited number of students in a
group, large amounts of lessons and the
appropriate electronic environment.
15Media Culture
- The course Media Culture includes two different
types of knowledge the knowledge of the subject
itself focusing on traditional and digital media
and the knowledge of one's personal experience
with the media.
16Media Culture course
- The teacher will make students more sensitive to
the media - they should become aware of them and
develop critical appreciation of the media
position in their life today.
17student activities
- Most of the students chose the presentation. The
presenters and the class showed great interest in
such presentations and the discussions were
sometimes quite heated and full of controversial
opinions.
18student activities
- The students varied in their competence in using
computer technology. They ranged from real
beginners to cyber kids, total computer addicts.
Because of that the problems which arose while
preparing the presentation were very different.
19student activities
- Different levels of technological equipment
sometimes even caused unpleasant situations when
some groups felt being discriminated against. - The reasons were the modest electronic
environment at the faculty, too many students in
a group and insufficient number of lessons.
20Omega numbers (http//omega.ffzg.hr)
- 2007 Omega numbers for online content
- 200 teachers (out of 450)
- 23 departments (out of 23)
- 220 courses (out of 2700)
- 3300 students (out of 6000)
21Omega numbers (http//omega.ffzg.hr)
- departments with most e-courses
- Information Sciences, 69 courses
- English, 22 courses
- History, 20 courses
- Sociology, 19 courses
- Croatian Language, 15 courses
22online activities logs
Raw Log Data
23online activities logs
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24online activities logs
25online activities logs
26online activities logs
27online activities logs
28current state expected future
- online availability of learning resources is much
better than several years ago - Omega system encourages production of digital
learning material - produced in a standard way
- available at a standard place
- usable in a standard way
29current state expected future
- although e-learning made huge advancement in
recent years... - electronic content is still NOT available in
optimal amount and quality - students and teachers are still not proficient
with IT - there are technical and classroom space
restrictions
30current state expected future
- We have a dream smaller groups, better
conditions concerning the equipment, reciprocal
help, active anticipation in occasional projects
at the faculty and Media culture with media. - New library building is expected to free
significant amount of space in the old building
that will be available for space and
technological improvements
31Media culture with(out) media?
- Thank you
- Marina Cizmic Horvatmfruk_at_ffzg.hr
- Predrag Gjuro Kladaricgjuro_at_ffzg.hr